On 4/21/05, Clayton
Don't forget that you are seeing only a few posts of people having problems... those of us that installed 9.3 and didn't have any problems aren't posting complaints :-)
Upgrades (vs clean installs) have ALWAYS been a problem. Even MS couldn't get upgrades to work 100%. Too much debris from the previous install would interfere with the newer software. Look back in the archives at the loads of problems people have going the upgrade route. If look at the history... there are way way way less problems and complaints with upgrades than there used to be... It's not perfect, but it's way better than it used to be.
That said I still always do a clean install - just the same as I do if I'm installing a new version of any OS. I did a clean install of 9.3 and have had no problems at all. Everything just worked. My scanner works, my camera works, my funky Linux keyboard works... all the apps I installed work fine (at least the ones I've tried in the last couple days)...
I was also somewhat disappointed with 9.2, but 9.3 is nice. Performance (on my system at least) is greatly improved, apps start up quicker etc.
There have only been a relatively few postings of problems, and most are in special cases where there is some funky configuration... for the thousands of installs that have happened in the last few days, that's not too bad :-)
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Yes, you are absolutely correct. I'm just panicking as usual :-) I'm overly stressed right at this moment because of a major report I've been writing...that didn't go quite according to plan. I shall probably get my boxed set of SuSE 9.3 in a few weeks time :-) and I shall no doubt do the same as yourself and do a clean install. I did have problems myself when I tried to upgrade over 9.1 with 9.2 So, I then tried a clean one and it went on fine. Still with some strange niggles every now and again that just shouldn't be there. Hopefully they will be ok in 9.3 -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR